man and the Father wrestle; when the Father bites the recovery man's tongue and spits it out, Senga detonates his last bomb, killing them both. Senga and Nat leave, continuing their drive home in daylight. When they stop at a gas station, they return to their car to find a razor blade — the Father's calling card — attached to the rear view mirror. Cast The Wilsons Madeleine Stowe as Senga Wilson Mischa Barton as Natasha 'Nat' Wilson, Senga's daughter Samuel Fröler as Marek Wilson, Senga's ex-husband and Nat's father The Cultists Jonathan Rhys Meyers as The Father, the cult's leader Bijou Phillips as the Backpacker Leo Gregory as Joyrider Gary Parker and Amber Batty as the vacationing couple Jenny Jules as highway patrol sergeant Patrick O'Kane as the trucker Stephen Lord as Carjacker Sarah Drews as Christine Others Norman Reedus as the Recovery man, Christine's brother Martin McDougall as Motivational Speaker Shauna Shim and David Menkin as paramedics Nigel Whitmey as Detective Ned Stephens Dean Gregory as a Christian missionary Monika Hudgins as Southern woman Cesar Bayona Pinto as Latino busboy Véronique Koch and Ase Dunbar as Cashiers Nicolette Christie and Emma Drews as the teenage girl Tom Hunsiger as Crime Scene Investigator Sam Douglas as Crash site detective Rachel Pollack as Metro girl Production Director Marcus Adams recalled producers Alistair MacLean-Clark and Basil Stephens approaching him to direct the film in 2001, which at that time was "essentially a vampire movie," which had been in development for around five years. Adams spent one year rewriting elements of the script with screenwriter Stephen Volk; this included altering the ending as well as subduing the overt vampire plot of the film, resulting in what Adams envisioned as "faint" vampire film, where vampires functioned more as a metaphor than as literal beings. Though set in the United States, Octane was shot in Luxembourg on a budget of US$10.5 million, culled from five films investors. Principal photography for the film began on 3 June 2002. The production company chose Luxembourg as a shooting location based on a stretch of highway that had been recently paved and had yet to open to the public, which made it a feasible location for the film's numerous road sequences. Because the film is set in the United States, a team of contractors were appointed to paint yellow and white dividing lines on the road for it